We didn't discover online and think, 'Oh, this is really lucrative. We've got to get on board with it.' We've been here since 2003. Burnie Burns boarddiscoverhave Change image and share on social
We wanted to make movies back in college before Rooster Teeth. Our roots have always been in feature filmmaking, and we've always wanted to go back to it. Burnie Burns backcollegefeature Change image and share on social
Even in the days of early YouTube, we always focused on narratives, and we always focused on franchises. We didn't do a lot of vlogging and stuff like that. Burnie Burns dayearlyfocus Change image and share on social
When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch. Burnie Burns animateaudiencecomedy Change image and share on social
To me, the machinima artform has essentially evolved now into the Let's Play streaming world. That's what it is: it's people performing and creating art using video games. It's just more personality-driven rather than story-driven these days. Burnie Burns artartformcreate share on social
I think, ultimately, the story of Rooster Teeth is going to be one of longevity. Burnie Burns longevityroosterstory Change image and share on social
We started on April 1, 2003. So long ago, you couldn't watch video in a web browser; you had to watch it in a different player, like in Quicktime player or something like that. Burnie Burns agoaprilbrowser Change image and share on social
Anybody who has traveled with a significant other before knows it's tough. Burnie Burns significanttoughtravele Change image and share on social
We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas. Burnie Burns financeideaplace Change image and share on social
We started about three years before YouTube existed, so we had to host all the videos on our own servers at a co-location facility. When we got so many hits on our first few videos, and we estimated our bandwidth bill was going to be about $12,000 a month, we knew that we had to establish a business model ASAP. Burnie Burns 000asapbandwidth share on social